Carbon emission is still one of the most hazardous environmental problem across the world. International authorities as well as local governments are projecting strategies to deal with this issue. To this end, our study aims to explore the link between energy consumption and carbon emission. We attempt to extend the current literature by identifying sector-specific impacts of electricity consumption on carbon emission. Findings suggest that the nexus between electricity consumption and CO₂ is sector-specific as well as distribution specific in Turkey. In particular, we find a positive but weak impact of industrial electricity consumptions on CO₂ emission. Yet, the effects get stronger for the lowest and highest quantiles of carbon emissions due industrial electricity consumption suggesting an alert for the shift in the current energy policies of the country. Furthermore, we find the electricity used in residents and transportation has insignificant effect on environmental degradation, in contrast to the commercial and public services electricity usage has a positive and strong effect on carbon emission. Therefore, controlling for distribution specific effects and disaggregated consumption patterns facilitate the efficient policy recommendations.

碳排放仍然是全世界最危险的环境问题之一。国际当局和地方政府都在计划解决这一问题的战略。为此，我们的研究旨在探索能源消耗与碳排放之间的联系。我们试图通过确定电力消耗对碳排放的特定行业影响来扩展当前文献。研究结果表明，电力消耗和CO ₂之间的联系在土耳其是特定于部门的，也是特定于分布的。特别是，我们发现工业用电对CO ₂产生了积极但微弱的影响排放。然而，由于工业用电量导致的最低和最高分位数的碳排放量，其影响变得更加强烈，这表明该国当前能源政策已经发生了变化。此外，我们发现用于居民和交通运输的电力对环境退化的影响不大，而与商业和公共服务业相比，电力使用对碳排放具有积极而强烈的影响。因此，控制分配的特定影响和分类消费模式有助于有效的政策建议。